The result of a nearly 30-year quest and drawing on hundreds of hours of interviews, The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X is an epic biography of one of the most politically relevant figures of the 20th century, and a labor of love for co-author Tamara Payne, who completed the work after the 2018 death of her father, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist and former Newsday editor Les Payne. She’s talking about the book, and the legacies left behind both by its subject and her father, with Emmy-winning journalist Randall Pinkston, who spent more than 30 years with CBS News as a correspondent and anchor.
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The result of a nearly 30-year quest and drawing on hundreds of hours of interviews, The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X is an epic biography of one […]

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